Spoor (film)

Spoor
Film poster
Directed byAgnieszka Holland
Written by
Based onDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJolanta Dylewska
Rafal Paradowski
Edited byPavel Hrdlicka
Music byAntoni Lazarkiewicz
Release dates
  • 12 February 2017 (2017-02-12) (Berlin)
  • 24 February 2017 (2017-02-24) (Poland)
Running time
128 minutes
CountriesPoland
Czech Republic
Germany[1]
LanguagePolish
Box office$1 million[2][3]

Spoor (Polish: Pokot) is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.[4][5] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[6][4] At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear).[7] It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[8]

The Polish-language title, Pokot, is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. The English title Spoor refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game.

  1. ^ kinobox.cz, team at. "Česko-polský snímek Přes kosti mrtvých míří na Berlinale do hlavní soutěže". Kinobox.cz. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Pokot (Spoor)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Pokot". The Numbers. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b Nick Holdsworth. "Berlin: Agnieszka Holland Talks True Crime Film 'Spoor' and Trying TV's Golden Age (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Spoor (Pokot)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Aki Kaurismäki, Oren Moverman, Agnieszka Holland, Andres Veiel, and Sally Potter – First Films for the Competition of the Berlinale 2017". Berlinale. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Prizes of the International Jury". Berlinale. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  8. ^ Holdsworth, Nick (9 September 2017). "Oscars: Poland Selects 'Spoor' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 September 2017.

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